In love with big ideas and small details.


My work starts where brands and people meet: Educated in branding & marketing with a top-up in retail design & visual merchandising, I set out to create appealing interiors for retail spaces, trade fairs and showrooms.

/Concept Creation
/Retail Design
/Visual Merchandising

 



WORK

Concept & Retail Developer
Normann Copenhagen, Copenhagen (DK)

Spatial Designer & VM
Broste Copenhagen
Kristina Dam Studio, Copenhagen (DK)

Next Me-Visual Merchandiser
& Other Stories, Hamburg (GER)

Jr. Account Manager Retail & Corporate Design
Syndicate Design, Hamburg (GER)

Intern Retail Marketing
Tom Tailor Group, Hamburg (GER)

Student Worker Marketing
Bestseller, Brande (DK)

EDUCATION

Retail Design & Visual Merchandising
Akademie JAK, Hamburg (GER)

B.A. in Design & Business
VIA University College TEKO, Herning (DK)

B.Sc in Fashion Retail (Erasmus Semester)
Hochschule Reutlingen, Reutlingen (GER)

 
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WHAT I’M CURRENTLY WORKING ON:

I am currently working at Normann Copenhagen where I oversee all retail design and visual merchandising topics. We are currently looking at the concept for 3daysofdesign and our new showroom abroad.

 
 

WHAT DESIGNERS SHOULD ALWAYS BE IMPROVING:

Keep learning new stuff. Things customers and friends are into, weird stuff in the world – how things work and how they change. You might be good at a thing but you have to force yourself do to other things that might seem unnatural to you, in order to trigger the creativity.

 
 

I WILL ALWAYS MAKE TIME FOR:

I try to make time for projects that are close to my heart. I recently took a course on book binding, which I found quite interesting. Letting creativity run free in personal projects, supporting friends or exploring new disciplines nurtures my curiosity and creativity at the same time.

 

PROGRAMS